diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 037bbc777..4fe91205e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,5 +2,11 @@
 downloads/*
 updates_key.pem
 youtube_dl.egg-info
-latest/*
 test
+build/
+dist/
+youtube-dl.1
+youtube-dl.fish
+youtube-dl.zsh
+README.txt
+youtube-dl.bash-completion
diff --git a/latest/.git_dont_delete b/latest/.git_dont_delete
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/latest/.htaccess b/latest/.htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index cec48e4e4..000000000
--- a/latest/.htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteRule version - [T=text/plain]
-
-FileETag None
-<ifModule mod_headers.c>
-     Header unset ETag
-     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
-     Header set Pragma "no-cache"
-     Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
-</ifModule>
-
-Options +Indexes
diff --git a/update_latest.sh b/update_latest.sh
index fd12fbcdc..b2382aa6a 100755
--- a/update_latest.sh
+++ b/update_latest.sh
@@ -10,13 +10,5 @@ fi
 
 cd "$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))"
 
-ln -sf --no-target-directory ../downloads/$version latest/directory
-for f in $(ls "downloads/$version/"); do \
-    ln -sf --no-target-directory "../downloads/$version/$f" latest/$(echo $f | sed -e "s@-$version@@")
-done
-
-ln -sf --no-target-directory "$version" "downloads/latest"
-/bin/echo -e "RewriteEngine On\nRewriteRule latest(.*) /downloads/${version}\$1 [L,R=302]" > downloads/.htaccess
-
-echo -n "$version" > latest/version
-
+echo -n "$version" > latest_version
+/bin/echo -e "RewriteEngine On\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ /downloads/latest/$1 [L,R=302]" > latest/.htaccess